#xander rambles

[haunted-xander]

Usually when something becomes popular or suddenly explodes online my interest in it tends to be pretty 'oh cool, people like this thing ig' or sometimes my interest actually lessens fron over-exposure

Dungeon Meshi is apparently the exception bc wow I am so intrigued by what is happening here

[thexoonder]

NEW LAYTON GAME

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

FINALLY

[modern-hiccup]

Besties all I need is a biiiiiig hug and like the worlds biggest cup of hot cocoa ;n;

[aingeal98]

Btvs is such a crazy show how is there only a handful of episodes acknowledging that Willow and Xander have abusive families and would choose Buffy in a heartbeat over anyone they're blood related to. And yet despite how it's barely seen on screen, their family life and how it influenced them shines through in practically every episode. We never even meet Willow's dad but from her mom alone plus how she's treated in school it's like oh man. This kid never had a chance did she.

How many times did Buffy chat away about her mom and Dawn while Willow and Xander shot each other confused glances trying to correlate the kind of love they're hearing about with their own version that they messily pieced together when they met in kindergarten. And then Buffy talks about Hank Summers and they're like ah yes. Much more familiar territory.

And of course it all culminates in the ending of S6. Xander can't stop Willow spiralling into nihilistic evil. They're both broken people who never had a real blueprint for how to be a functional child, let alone a functional adult. But at the same time, they taught each other love before they learned how to write the word. It doesn't matter that he's kind of shitty in general. It doesn't matter that by this point she's kind of worse. Even if they can't fix themselves or the world that shaped them so cruelly, he can at least love her. She can at least trust that much to always be true.

Platonic hand in unlovable hand. The world is alive because some random guy exists and as long as he's alive the terrifyingly powerful witch who could destroy the planet won't be tempted to. He's just some dude and you don't have to clap for him but if you kill him, well then she's blowing up the building and everyone in it. High possibility the blast radius will take out the whole earth depending on what kind of day you caught her on.

[reyna-obsessed]

WAKE UP DARLING ANOTHER TIG BOOK JUST GOT ANNOUNCED

[honeydots]

did a redraw that was going around on twitter a while back~ ♥♥

og by _K0TTERl_ from their manga veil!!

[dav-suburbiia]

I cannot believe I forgot to mention that I had a dream last night that the new meme going around on Twitter was editing a picture of Xander Matthews’s face in random bowls of cereal and trying to find it among the cereal like Where’s Waldo

[liz-allyn]

based on the watch , author unknown. traditional retirement speech of the Navy

My dog, Xander

2007-2023

A life well-lived

[onyxedskies]

i won't apologize

[jareicanon]

🔪 #DRDT EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🍀

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Hi friends! I am proud (and so so so excited) to present the dates and prompts for this year’s #xanruko week! I am super hyped for this, and can’t wait to see everyone’s contributions!

The banners were drawn by the wonderful @juicewaaa check him out!! I’m still going insane over these art pieces

The structure of this post is inspired by the lovely @librariansrose thank you for letting me model my announcement by using yours as a guideline 🫶

I hope you all have fun!! I can’t wait to see everyone’s hard work!!

What are the dates, you ask?

APRIL 22ND TO APRIL 28TH

What are the prompts?

As listed:

Day 22: Despair

Day 23: Elements

Day 24: Heartache

Day 25: Comfort

Day 26: Sun and Moon

Day 27: Folklore

Day 28: Free Day

What are the tags?

I’m holding off saying what they are until a few days before Xanruko week starts, to avoid tag raids!

Are there any rules? Yes! Onto those!!

RULES AND REGULATIONS

Please refrain from using this event or any future events I organise as a platform to criticise the featured couple or unrelated couples. Thank you for your understanding.

You're welcome to join regardless of your romantic interest in the pairing! Just as long as you keep the focus on the featured characters and avoid involving other pairings in your submissions (or if you do include them, have them as a lesser focus) — as long as the featured characters are the main focus of your work, then go crazy friends!

Only original creative works made by you are eligible for submission. Please refrain from using AI-generated or similar content, as well as any form of plagiarism. These events aim to show authentic creativity and to bring our little community together.

While there's no specific rating cap, please be mindful that not all participants are adults. Therefore, when submitting your work, ensure you tag certain themes and provide warnings if your content goes above a PG-13 rating.

Let's have a great time and uplift one another within this event! Please avoid ostracising anyone and offer encouragement. Being cruel, or rude or dismissive towards anyone’s creations will not be tolerated. These events are meant to be enjoyable, after all, and it's important for us to support each other!

If this event doesn't align with your interests, don’t participate. Simply ignore it and move on. Please refrain from spreading any negativity regarding the topic or pairing; the main goal here is to enjoy ourselves and have a positive experience.

Enjoy yourself! Have fun!

[anacharafan]

They surely have to have something of her as well, you know?

[haunted-xander]

Do you ever think about how Alisaie's biggest fear is losing the people she cares about? How the very first conversation you have with her alone, a deeply personal one, is about her confiding in you about those fears? Telling you that she hated the state of the world Louisoix died for because, to her, it wasn't worth the sacrifice? She tells you about all the allies she made and lost, who she watched die and could do nothing to save them.

Do you ever think about how Alisaie was consistently one of the first to act, to recklessly throw herself at danger throughout stb? She didn't care (as much) about herself getting hurt, but she'd be damned if she let her friends suffer without doing anything. She has to be fast and proactive, because if she can't protect them even when striking first, how would she be able to when acting after the fact?

Do you ever think about how every time her loved ones are in peril/are in risk of being in peril her heart just breaks? How whenever someone's safety is unsure she panics and immediately tries to contact them/rush to their aid? When Castrum Abania's cannon shot the tower that, for all she knew, Alphinaud was still in, she immediately stops what she's doing and runs to it in panic because her brother was in there and he might be dead.

Do you ever think about how when the Scions start getting their souls yanked to the First, Alisaie reacts the strongest? How, when Urianger and Y'shtola got taken, she fell to her knees shaking Uriangers body, screaming for him to wake up? And when Gaius appears with Alphinaud in the Burn, she immediately goes to fight him (before being stopped by Hien) because this man, who has been her enemy, is holding her brother's lifeless body. She doesn't care that she can't possibily beat him, he has her brother and she's already lost so much in such a short amount of time. She's lost Thancred, Y'shtola and Urianger already, she can't lose Alphinaud too.

Do you ever think about how you are the only one she can fully rely on at that time, but who is also at risk of being taken away? Of how she's so desperate for you to stay, to not be taken away, that Alisaie, who, for all her bluntness, prefers to rely on herself first and foremost, begs you not to leave her? She begs you. Alisaie does not beg. She yells at you to not do something, and she'll scold you to hell and back if you do it anyway, but she does not beg. But this time she did.

And then she ends up being taken away right in front of you. She cries out for help and uses her very last energy to reach out for you. And then she falls limp.

Do you ever think about how, when Alphinaud turns to tell her his plans at the end of Ultima Thule, she immediately rejects it without even letting him say it? She's lost so much and experienced so much grief, not only overall but also just in Ultima Thule. And she loathes to bring that grief onto another. Especially to one who has already lost so much, like you. She hates it. She ends up doing it, yes, but she hates it still.

DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT-

[thexoonder]

I've never known pain like this ever before

(My favourite fic got deleted on AO3)

[aingeal98]

The methods of dealing with the big bads in Buffy are so funny and get increasingly more unhinged like s1 and 2 are vampires and we killed them. s3 a giant snake monster and we blew it the hell up. s4 a frankenstein monster robot that we killed by melding all of our souls together and using magic to give Buffy superpowers so she can rip out his heart. s5 an invincible god so Giles just straight up murdered its innocent human host to kill it. s6 our good friend Willow who we asked very nicely to please stop murdering people and destroying the world and now she continues to hang out with us and occasionally do ridiculously powerful feats of magic but it's OK she's not quite as depressed and suicidal anymore so she probably won't kill us all. And s7 was just the ultimate evil so we went back to the classic tactic of blowing it's army the hell up.

[only-one-brain-cell]

Spike is co president and co founder of the Xander is a Wanker club.

[all-seeing-ifer]

Many weird and noteworthy things about season 1 / early season 2 of buffy but by far the funniest is how baitly they seemed to be setting up willow and xander to be an actual couple. I feel like if you had no prior knowledge of btvs and just watched season 1 it would seem really obvious that they were going to do the classic teen movie cliche of xander having a crush on the cool girl but eventually realising that the right person for him was Right Under His Nose All Along, and then you jump forward four seasons and willow is gay and has a girlfriend and xander's getting engaged to an initially one-off character from season 3 and the two of them have this extremely deep sibling-like relationship which is constantly reiterated to be the most platonic thing ever. They were the great American straightbait and they mean everything to me